Tag Archives: LGBT History Month

Desire, love, identity: exploring LGBTQ histories – an exhibition of LGBT+ community artefacts and ephemera put together by the British Museum – is touring the UK through late 2018 and early 2019. This week it arrives in Nottingham at the National Justice Museum. From March 15 it moves to Bolton, before spending the summer in Norwich. The organisers promise: “Modern […]

Thirty years ago today Manchester saw the biggest queer rights demonstration the UK had ever witnessed as more than 20,000 people poured onto the streets to protest against Section 28. It was twenty years after the partial decriminalisation of sex between men – and bar the extension of that law to Scotland in 1980 and Northern Ireland in 1982, precious […]

Steve from Manchester bi group BiPhoria took a table full of bi resources bi to Liverpool Museum’s contribution to LGBT History Month, entitled Outing The Past on Saturday 3 February. Here’s his report. I turned up at the Museum at 10am with the BiPhoria pull-up banner, a flag to cover the table and a selection of leaflets and copies of […]

Steve’s experiences with a museum in Liverpool this LGBT History Month (see elsewhere this issue) are all too common a refrain. Take the fancy 2011 NHS LGBT history timeline, which in the space of twenty display panels of a half-dozen or so LGBT historic dates apiece, only mentioned bisexuals twice – each time in the phrase “gay and bisexual” and […]

Did you know there’s a bisexual history timeline poster you can download from our website right now? Especially handy during LGBT History Month where it can seem like there are far more LG&T resources than bi ones. It’s one which appeared in BCN issues 141 and 143A, and has a whole heap of bi dates. Ideal for LGBT History Month […]

A six-month long exhibition of LGBT history opens in Manchester this weekend with a review of the bisexual history of the city over the past thirty years among the opening events. The People’s History Museum includes more than 100 issues of Bi Community News among its archives of LGBT materials available to researchers all year round. Curated by members of […]

The Bisexual History Project has shiny new flyers! Great to see them in this tweet: Our old flyers were, to be honest, a bit scrappy.Loving these new ones! #LGBTHM17 #bipride pic.twitter.com/1o8GdKdAA8 — Bisexual History (@BisexualHistory) February 8, 2017 An ideal addition to any LGBT History Month event.

It’s LGBT History Month and here’s a tweet from Liverpool Museum celebrating a bi donation to their LGBT archives. 6 – Our newest LGBT acquisition @MuseumLiverpool a much needed boost to bi representation in collection. Thanks to @jenyockney for donating! pic.twitter.com/jqe2UXbl2U — Matthew Exley (@Mexley88) February 6, 2017 Have you got an old bi flyer for an event or leaflet […]